Addie's contribution has been sent to Miss Fanshawe, the Treasurer of
St. Mary's Free Hospital. In reply to Susie, the reason why editors
prefer correspondents to write on one side of the paper, and not on
both, is a twofold one. It is mainly for the convenience of printers
that the request is made, because sometimes ten or a dozen printers are
setting the type for an article at the same time. The pages are divided,
and assigned to different compositors as "copy," and the article can be
set up much more rapidly if the writing is on one side only of the
paper. Sometimes a page has to be cut in two when there is much need for
haste. Editors, who are very busy people, can read manuscript which is
written in this way with more ease than if it were otherwise. As they
read, they do not need to turn their leaves, but can lay them down as
they get to the end of each.
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